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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1973 | Stranmillis College | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1977 | Lock Haven Bald Eagles (assistant) | ||
| 1978–1984 | ELCO Raiders | ||
| 1984 | Davis & Elkins Senators | ||
| 1986–1987 | Penn State Nittany Lions (assistant) | ||
| 1988–2009 | Penn State Nittany Lions | ||
Barry Gorman is a collegiate soccer coach. He most recently served as the head men's soccer coach at Penn State University from 1987 to 2009, before being replaced by Bob Warming. He is Penn State's all-time winningest soccer coach,[1] compiling 266 victories in 22 seasons. He is a three time NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year, having won the award in the 1992, 1999, and 2005 seasons. He also won Big Ten Coach of the Year honors in 2005. He has led his team to 13 NCAA tournament appearances, advancing to the round of 16 four times and to the national quarterfinals twice, and three Big 10 regular season championships. Prior to his time as head coach, Gorman also served as an assistant for two years under Walter Bahr.[2]
PSU Coaching Legacy
100 Years, 4 Generations of Penn State Coaching History
Gorman is linked to Coach Bill Jeffrey, the head coach of Penn State University Men's Soccer in the early 20's, who later became the Men's national team head coach in the World Cup. Coach Jeffrey died in 1966 and his coaching lineage worked through four generations at Penn State University. By 1970, the captain of Jeffrey's 1950 USA team, Walter Bahr would become coach at Penn State from 1974 to 1988. His assistant, Barry Gorman, would later succeed him as head coach, keeping the Penn State job through the 2009 season. In 2021, the connection to Jeffrey continues with Coach Gorman's youth player, Fraser Kershaw, who took the head coaching job at Penn State Altoona. The coaching connection reached four separate generations of soccer, reaching a 100-year continual coaching succession.[3]
- ^ Barry Gorman Penn State Men's Soccer Profile
- ^ "Gorman resigns as men's soccer head coach | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ "Bill Jeffrey, Altoona, and the history of American soccer". US Soccer Players. Retrieved 19 March 2022.